There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
All the world's a cage.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.